re·cent 
(r
ēs
ənt)
adj.1. Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
2. Modern; new.
3. Recent Geology Of, relating to, or being the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.
[Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recēns, recent-; see ken- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
recen·cy, recent·ness n.
recent·ly adv.